points by verdverm 6 hours ago | 0 comments
why do you think it will be made illegal?
[–] apatheticonion 6 hours ago
[–] verdverm 5 hours ago
Where is it illegal? I know of many examples where people are running companies doing this across a variety of domains. (not software, no ai)
Trade secrets have no legal protection
[–] apatheticonion 5 hours ago
It's a fair question. Are you familiar with clean room concepts and why they are required to circumvent the legal hurdles associated with reverse engineering projects?
[–] verdverm 4 hours ago
Where are you getting this legal hurdle stuff from? People have been doing this since forever
Sandy Monroe is a great current example, tears down cars and builds reports. The auto industry has distillation built in
Can an LLM be "clean room"? Are weights trained on decompiled code considered "tainted"?